In fact, if you just want to make money, you can trade silver for Tongbao in Daming and buy goods in Annan and sell back the money.

But not to mention Annan, it is impossible to let Chen Mu spend Tongbao in any corner of the world.

He wished he could get all Tongbao to Nanyang Vail Port to build artillery.

The ministers of Nanyang only had one trick to do business, with red mouth and white teeth on the full screen, and opened their mouths to barter.

In fact, when cotton, brocade, and silk are exchanged for Southeast Asian specialties, Chen Mu always felt that he had suffered a great loss, but the situation forced him to do so.

Because of the hardworking Portuguese businessmen and the hard-working merchants who went to India from Malacca, bulk cotton was imported from Macau, which made the Guangdong silk weaving industry market, which had just burst out with huge vitality, reach a bottleneck and had a very overcapacity.

Yin Zhengmao accidentally issued a law to shortage the human resources in Guangzhou Prefecture, stimulating the use of very primitive steam engines, and the people and merchants learned from Nanyang Wei to form a factory model. This happened two years ago.

At that time, this was a good thing for Chen Mu. His goal was to invest in these merchants. He did not directly give them money to expand production, but to use the strong financial resources of the Nanyang Military Office to buy all products at a certain price to stimulate them to produce profitably.

On the other hand, he also started investing in technology. At that time, he believed that there would always be a day when qualitative changes occurred.

But he didn't expect that what came was not qualitative change, but fuzzy quantitative change.

Guangzhou Prefecture is better, but the factory scale has expanded to Guangdong Province, and even Guangxi and Fujian have some influence.

This is the first time Chen Mu has felt the butterfly effect in his life.

He thought that controlling the input of cotton could control the scale, but local gentry, merchants, and people were not fools, especially the people of Fujian and Guangxi who would rather go out to sea to make a living with a beheading charge.

The Portuguese transported cotton from India not enough. They took sea and land, from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi, and some of them found business opportunities to sell cotton at market prices, making a small profit.

Some merchants with factories in Guangzhou Prefecture directly hire people to purchase goods to the north, or northern merchants directly exchange cotton for cotton cloth, which can be sold to Mongolia as far as the farthest.

Because it's cheap.

There is a piece of machine cotton cloth elsewhere, and a piece of cotton cloth with two cents of silver, and a piece of cotton cloth with two cents of silver. The price is 20% lower than that of cotton cloth.

This is a good thing, but the bad thing is that his blood transfusion to Guangzhou cotton cannot be stopped. He is not able to go to the north to compete for profit with merchants, which is not in line with his original intention. The overseas market is only so big for the time being, all of which are tropical and subtropical areas, and only summer cotton can be sold.

How many people are there for the countries in Southeast Asia?

Even if you add one, you can't compare to Wu Gongji!

"If I want to make money, I won't sell it to Wu Gongji for exchange."

Chen Mu always thought this in his heart. If he just wanted to make money, he could hold two companies with one mouth. He raised the price with Wu Gongji and supplied goods to Hexingsheng there. He made profits in the middle and bartered, and he would have military expenses for the Battle of Annan.

Although such a profit is not as much as Chen Mu can achieve.

No matter what, when the Nanyang Military Office announced the rewards for the military merits of this war, the military soldiers in each hundred households, the general flag, and the small flag were spread out, and the morale was indeed as Deng Zilong thought, and each was ready to fight another battle.

The so-called propaganda soldiers are the double-guard flag soldiers who tell heroic stories to the flag army around a bonfire in the evening. They look a bit like the priests of the army, but in Chen Mu's heart they also have the work of enhancing the cohesion of the flag army and solving the psychological problems before and after the war.

This is not brainwashing.

A Ming Dynasty flag army followed the footsteps of heroes from the Central Plains, embarked on the battlefield in a great battle, achieved the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army between life and death, and gave them the courage to survive. Chen Mu never thought this was brainwashing.

Brainwashing is what Chen Ju went back and asked the imperial edict to dispatch the Jinyiwei to do.

They go to Annan, to Malacca, to India, to Spain, and may even spread their footsteps throughout the world.

These Jinyiwei, who are on the mission of spying, will do their best to make others believe that their motherland is weak, those who fail, those who fail are evil, and those who believe that their nation is foolish, stupid, and those who are inferior.

That's brainwashing.

The battle to conquer Annan was not much for the entire Ming Empire. It was nothing more than earning a little money to get a canal from Yunnan to overseas, so as to clear the joints and reduce the pressure on baggage in the next battle in Myanmar.

But for the Nanyang Military Palace, the significance is completely different, and it is a major event of killing birds with one stone.

He gained wealth and opened up the market. More importantly, the cohesion of the Nanyang Army was very different.

The logistics supply of the Battle of Annan was treated equally by the three thousand military guards of the Sect Master and the nine thousand flag troops of the vassal states. The nine thousand households from various countries had never eaten such military rations on the battlefield in the past, and before going to the expedition, they never expected that the rewards of military merits would be treated equally.

Not to mention those flag troops, even in the middle of the country, there are few opportunities to eat such food, and I never thought that such treatment would be accepted in the war.

Looking at the hungry vassal flag army, Chen Mu could imagine that when the war ended, they returned to their respective countries with rewards of military merits, they would influence more people from bottom to top to gather under the Ming Empire's Inlaid Dragon.

Chen Mu even thought that if the empire could rejuvenate internal pressure with the world market in the next hundred years and become a vital imperial hegemony in the imperial battle a hundred years later, this battle would have important significance in world history.

There are also officers from the military guards, those young generals and officers who are truly professional and from the Navy and Army Military Academy. The military strategy is not an unspecified obscure word for them, such as loving soldiers like children and sharing weal and woe with soldiers.

How to sleep in the same military tent and barracks as soldiers, how to eat the same military ration as soldiers, how to travel the same way, and even what to say when you put the meat in your bowl to your thin or strong subordinates when eating.

All are learned in class and all are written in textbooks.

No matter from which perspective, this is the first time that the new army, which has traditional and vassal characteristics, has entered a battle.

Three thousand Ming troops, nine thousand tribute flag troops, new force composition, new organizational system, new weapons and armor, new training of officers, and even new logistics.

But at this moment, no one can fully understand the entire source of the terrifying combat effectiveness of this army except Chen Mu, the founder of this vassal army.

When this army had not shone in the eyes of the world, Chen Mu was already full of ambitions by the dazzling light.

In early September, Qianhu, a military guard under Chen Mufa, who was under Shenglong, followed Lou Qi northward to Yunnan and ordered him to support Yang Yinglong.

Then he sent a message to Shiqi, who was stationed in Malacca, and ordered him to collect all the Myanmar intelligence in the hands of the Portuguese, and sent scouts to drive ships to collect Myanmar intelligence from the coast. At the same time, he sent Shao Tingda to lead the four thousand flag troops to move to Malacca.
Chapter completed!